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    G1S Grey Screen Recovery?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by NeoNemesis, Jan 5, 2011.

  1. NeoNemesis

    NeoNemesis Newbie

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    I was watching a movie yesterday and artifacts started appearing all over the screen. Tried to restart and got nothing, just a grey screen and rolling restarts. Figured my video card was blown and I'd have to replace my MB (not worth it out of warranty).

    However, as a last ditch effort I plugged in an external monitor. It loaded windows recovery with serious artifacts covering the screen. Windows recover ran for about 40 minutes and it said it fixed the problem. Restarted and everything is working normally.

    That's great, but I'm curious as to how this actually happened? It wasn't even displaying start up information before, how could anything windows suddenly fix what I am 90% sure was a hardware failure? Also, how how likely is this problem to reoccur?
     
    NeoNemesis, Jan 5, 2011
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  2. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    It could be a graphics driver problem, but all of the nvidia 8600 cards are basically labeled as defective, you can look up 'nvidia underfill' for more info.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Jan 5, 2011
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